How long does it take to read Hammerfall?
Hammerfall by C. J. Cherryh takes about 7 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Gene Wars universe
Next: Forge of Heaven
About 7 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2001. 427 pages, about 117,425 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One of science fiction's greatest writers -- a three-time Hugo Award winner -- introduces an all-new universe for the first time in decades. An innocent desert world is trapped between two hostile interstellar empires.One of the most renowned figures in science fiction, C. J. Cherryh has been enthralling audiences for nearly thirty years with rich and complex novels. Now at the peak of her career, this three-time Hugo Award Winner launches her most ambitious work in decades, Hammerfall, part of a far-ranging series, The Gene Wars, set in an entirely new universe scarred by the most vicious of future weaponry, nanotechnology. In this brilliant novel -- possibly Cherryh's masterwork -- the fate of billions has come down to a confrontation between two profoundly alien cultures on a single desert planet.
Subjects: Science fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, Life on other planets, Dictators
